Social Science

By IntroBooks Team

This book in particular, seeks to address the social sciences.
This is a complex topic and therefore avoided by many. We
intend to address briefly some key issues related to the
question of the social sciences: what are the social sciences?
How these science come into existence? How does happen the
division and hierarchy between these sciences? These topics,
among many others, are some issues that we will address
here:
 
What are the Social Sciences?
 
The Birth of Social Science
 
Social Psychology
 
The social science division
 
The reason for the social science differentiation

• Language: English
• Publisher: IntroBooks
• Release date: Nov 27, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393245636

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Social Science

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INTRODUCTION

This book in particular, seeks to address the social sciences. This is a complex topic and therefore avoided by many. We intend to address briefly some key issues related to the question of the social sciences: what are the social sciences? How these science come into existence? How does happen the division and hierarchy between these sciences? These topics, among many others, are some issues that we will address here:

What are the Social Sciences?

The Birth of Social Science

Social Psychology

The social science division

The reason for the social science differentiation

DESCRIPTION

The economic, political and cultural changes in the West from the eighteenth century, as the Industrial Revolutions and French, showed significant changes in society on its past forms, mainly based on traditions.

Thus arises the Sociology in the eighteenth century, with the first social research and the general ideas of the Enlightenment, as a way to understand and explain these social changes. Therefore, sociology is a science historically dated and that its emergence is linked to the consolidation of modern capitalism.

This discipline marks a change in the way of thinking about social reality if detaching it from transcendental concerns and differing progressively from other sciences as a rational and systematic way of understanding society.

Unlike the philosophical explanations of social relations, the reasons of sociology not just leave the office of speculation, based at best on casual observation of some facts. For explanations, they are employed statistical methods, empirical observation, and methodological neutrality.

As a science, sociology must follow the same general principles apply to all branches of scientific knowledge, despite the peculiarities of social phenomena when compared with the phenomena of nature and, consequently, the scientific approach to society.

Sociology, considering the kind of knowledge that produces, can serve different types of interests. Sociological production can be directed to engender a form of knowledge committed to human emancipation. It can be a kind of knowledge oriented towards promoting a better understanding of men about themselves, to achieve higher levels of political freedom and social welfare.

On the other hand, sociology can be targeted as a science of order, that is, their results can be used to improve the mechanisms of domination by the state or minority groups. Whether private firms or intelligence agencies, by default the interests and values of the democratic community to maintain the status quo.

CHAPTER I:

What